The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 53
I can't think how it happened; I must have been asleep.
Who acts: I, it · What happens: not think, happen, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 happened | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | ccomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 asleep | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 asleep | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 asleep | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asleep | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 asleep | cop |
| 13 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 think | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | can | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | must · perfect | I | asleep property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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